Fringe tassel and the method of making same



Jan. 29, 1929.

R. E. WALLISER v FRINGE TASSEL AND THE METHOD MAKING SAME I Filed Oct.20. 1927 Izaak/z Z01: 260% E. 7rd 22 1'56 6'2 W & Z?

1 Patented Jan. 29, "1929.

' ROBERT E. WALLISER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FRINGE TASSEL AND THE METHOD or MAKING- SAME.

Application filed October 20, 1927. Serial No. 227,464. v

My invention, in general, relates to fringe tassels and moreparticularly to fringe tassels of the type used in fringe headingmaterial.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved fringe tassel ofthe kind indicated.

Another object of my invention is to provide an improved windingmaterial for fringe tassels.

A further object of my invention is to eliminate the presentcomparatively slow hand method of fringe tassel manufacturing by thesubstitution of mechanical means and an improved method of fabrication,thereby effecting a great saving in time, labor and cost of production.

The fabrication and method, details of which will appear more fully inthe hereinafter specification, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, yields especially important advantages when usedin combination with the machine covered by a patent issued to me on afringe tasseling machine, No. 1,663,534, dated March 20th, 1928.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevational view of my fringe tasselsattached to a fringe heading. I

covering 17, preferably shellac applied, after Figure 2 is an enlargedelevational view,-

with parts broken away, of mytassel windmg.

Figure view of a component part of my tassel windmg. In the drawingswherein, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts inthe several views, A is a fringe heading, comprising the transversestitching 12, and the threads 13, certain lengths of which depend toform the loops 14 through which warp rope is inserted, constituting,when wound with a winding B, the tassels 15.

In Figure 2 a detail construction of the tassel winding B isillustrated, wherein 16v is a roughened or knurled wire cord, 17 ashellac adhesive coating thereon, and 18 a chenille or a yarn typewinding fibre, which, as shown in Figure tertwined fibres 19 and 20about which the transversely wound fibres 21 are encircled,

furring or napping 22 of the fibres being pro- 3, greatly enlarged,consists of inv3 is an enlarged detail elevational duced in the mannercustomary in chenille production.

In the actual process of manufacture of the tassel winding B, by theherein method, the surface of the wire core 16is roughened or knurled bymachine rolling, and an adhesive .on said adhesive.

which the chenille winding 18 is wrapped. I have found that byroughening thesurface of the wire core, together with the application ofthe adhesive 17, the chenille winding adheres more tenaciously than on asmooth unroughened wire. This is a point-of practical advantage in mymachine method of tassel manufacture wherein the desirability of adurable, bendable, but not excessively pliable, winding is especiallyadvantageous. It is to be particularly noted in this respect thatordinary thread or cord is unsuitable as. a winding in the-machineproduction of tassels, by reason of its pliabilitysince it has notsufficient stiffness to maintain any unsupported portion of its ownlength in a desired position to permit of its engagement by amadescribed in detail in my above-mentioned I Patent N 0. 1,663,534, thegeneral method only of machine production of fringe tassel being claimedin the present application.

In practice I have found that, with my machine, one operator willproduce as many tassels as can be made by eight operators working byhand.

It is to be understood that the fabrication and method set forthis'susceptible of some modification, understood as being limited to theprecise details as set forth, but desire to avail myself of suchvariations as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentis:

1. A tassel binder comprising a roughened wire coated with an adhesive,and an outer finishing layer of lustrous fibre wound in contact withsaid wire through said adhesive, said wire beingof suflicient stiffnessto maintain itself in position when applied as a binder.

Y 2. 'The method of making tassel binders consisting in roughening thesurface of a wire core, applying an adhesive thereon, and finallywrapping a layer of fibrous materlal 3..The method of making tasselbinders consisting in roughening the surface of a wire core, coatingsaid wire core with an adhesive, then wrapping a layer of fibrousmaterial over said adhesive,

whereby the ad- 2 1 .moopee hesive and fibreis adapted to sink into theby a tenacious engagement of the fibre and interstices of the roughenedwire core in a the wire core is obtained, said wire beingof 1 manner totenaciously adhere thereto. sufiicient stifiness to maintain itself inposi- 4. *A tassel binder comprising a. roughened tion when applied as abinder.

' 5 wire core coated with an adhesive; a layer In testimony whereof Ihave signed my of fibre over 'said adhesive, said fibre being name tothis specification. wound in a manner to partially sink into theinterstices of the roughened wire core, where- ROBERT E. WALLISER.

